Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:15:21 +0100 From: thomas.revell@powerconv.alstom.com Subject: Re: ctime updated unexpectedly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Eric Blake Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-IsSubscribed: yes > OK, thanks for the advice. Do you know if there is any way I can get the > information I was expecting. If not, I'll have to make some major changes > to some complicated shell scripts :( Sorry, I don't know of any way with POSIX semantics to track when just file metadata has changed. There are several utilities such as cmp, md5sum, diff, etc. that can tell you if files have the same contents. You might try asking on a Unix users newsgroup, since it is not just cygwin that has the property of file modifications touching both ctime and mtime. Fair enough. The changes weren't actually as bad as I expected. Thanks again for your advice. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/